Lead Product Manager, Commerce Platform at Shopping.com
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Lead Product Manager, Commerce Platform at Shopping.com
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- Web 2.0 Product Manager at Global Health Education Consortium
- Director, Products & Operation at Laborfair.com
- Product Manager, Advertising & Lead Mgmt Platform at Laborfair.com
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- Stanford University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Universidad Nacional Experimental Simón Bolívar
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Jose Arocha’s Summary
Top-notch professional:
• MIT engineering and product design Science’s Master. Research scholar in the social web at Stanford University – strongly analytical, inventive and strategic mind.
• Product management experience in online people-to-people marketplace and rich-media, web2.0 community sites: product positioning and strategy, product roadmap and priority management, data-driven optimization, spec definition and remote engineering management, UI design, product launching, SEO and web2.0 marketing.
• 10 years wearing multiple hats in startups: general management, international business development, multinational R&D innovation and knowledge management consulting, enterprise software services and consumer internet product management.
• Experience working with world-class professionals. Outstanding interpersonal skills in team building, negotiation, consensus finding and business presentations. English-Spanish Bilingual.
Jose Arocha’s Specialties:
Product management, online service marketplace design, p2p, people-to-people marketplaces, local SEO, lead distribution systems, social web2.0, product design, UI design, technology strategy, R&D consulting, inventive problem solving, front-end product development, competitive intelligence & analysis, knowledge mining, business development, negotiation, outstanding communication skills, team building, business planning, entrepreneurship, base-of-the-pyramid technologies and business models.
Jose Arocha’s Education
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Stanford University
Visiting Scholar , Internet, digital and social media, portable computing, BOP business models, latin america , 2004 — 2006
Semi-finalist, Stanford Social e-Challenge Business Plan Competition 05.
- Activities and Societies:
- Google fellow 2004-05
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sc.M. in Mechanical Engineering , product design, product development, innovation, engineering science , 1993 — 1996
Teaching assistant in fundamentals of manufacturing for ME students.
- Activities and Societies:
- Chamber and Symphonic Choir
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Universidad Nacional Experimental Simón Bolívar
Mechanical Engineer , mechanical engineering, engineering design , 1986 — 1992
Teaching Assistant in basic and advanced mechanics. Top GPA among ME graduates - June 1992.
- Activities and Societies:
- University choir musician - symphonic performances in Europe and The Americas.
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Jose Arocha’s Honors:
+ Google's Developing World Scholarship at Stanford/Reuters Digital Vision program (2004-05)
+ Reuters Foundation’s Digital Vision Fellowship at Stanford University (2004-06)
+ Invention Machine Corporation Employee of the month in 2001
+ Venezuela Government’s Fundayacucho Graduate Fellowship, M.I.T., MA (1993-95)
+ Top 1 of 42 ME students - Top 9 of +150 undergrad students at USB.
+ Top GPA of my state in Venezuela.
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